We’ve been hearing the Best Buy stores wouldn’t have many Palm Pre devices on hand June 6th, the date the Palm Pre launches. It looks like those rumors were correct…
Some stores will be lucky enough to have a dozen or more devices to sell, however, the overwhelming majority of them will only get a handful.
If you really are tying to get a Pre from a Best Buy store this coming Saturday I strongly suggest that you get their ridiculously early.
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The other day when we first told you that the Palm Pre would ship on June 6th and cost $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate, I voice a little conern about the device being priced too high. Well, Best Buy has decided to address those concerns and is pricing the Palm Pre at $199 out the door without a mail-in rebate.
So, you can etither head over to the Sprint Store, fork over 3 bills, sign up to a two year contract, and hope that you remember to fill out the papework for a mail-in rebate that you won’t see for a month of Sundays, or, you can pick up the same device with the same contract and only have to shell out $199 out of pocket from Best Buy.
Seems like an easy choice to me.
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To make a long story short, the Palm Pre will be hitting Sprint’s network June 6th (the week after next) with a $199 price tag after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Pre is definitely aiming to bridge the gap between the all work or all play perceptions of the BlackBerry and iPhone.
From what we hear the Palm Pre is one heck of the device that goes a long way to tie work and play in a single device. Unfortunately for Palm, however, I believe that Sprint has set the price too high.
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For those of you that regularly listen to Howard Stern you may have known that he has been auditioning new phones since last Tuesday. Stern has been a loyal Palm user for years but says that he is embarrassed to hold up his phone because it is “so old school”.
In a move (that is backfiring) to potentially capture celebrity buzz around the Pre, Palm sent a Pre to Stern to test out.
They’re going to show me the Pre and then take it away. They’re trying to build excitement for this thing. If people don’t buy this I don’t see how Palm keeps going.
From the title of this post you can probably guess what Stern decided to go with. He said that the lack of Lotus Notes support on the Pre was a deal breaker. I bet that a super popular long time Palm user publicly switching over to the BlackBerry Bold and talking about how great the Bold is on one of the most popular satellite radio shows right after saying that if the Pre doesn’t sell he doesn’t see how Palm keeps going, is the type of buzz Palm was going for.
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Ever since CES, the smartphone world has been dominated with news of Palm’s new webOS and the device on which it runs, the Palm Pre. There hasn’t been a lot of good news coming out of Palm for the passed couple of years, however, when it comes to the Pre reviewers are raving about it, new blogs covering the Pre are emerging, and some are even calling the Pre an iPhone killer.
Just how big will the Palm Pre and webOS be?
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